{"id":608395,"date":"2026-04-16T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608395\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:13:11","slug":"u-s-leads-interest-by-wide-margin-in-getting-canadian-citizenship-by-descent-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608395\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. leads interest by wide margin in getting Canadian citizenship by descent | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776359591_94_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canadian passports are displayed at an event to debut the new design at the Ottawa International Airport in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sean Kilpatrick<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 16, 2026 | 8:44 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 A new law expanding eligibility for Canadian citizenship led to an initial uptick in applications from a handful of countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Bill C-3 took effect on Dec. 15 to allow a citizenship claim from someone born outside Canada to a Canadian parent who was also born outside Canada, as long as the parent spent at least three years in Canada before their child\u2019s birth or adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada reports receiving more than 12,000 citizenship by descent applications between Dec. 15 and the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>The largest share of these applications are from the U.S., with nearly 2,500 filed in January alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian passports are displayed at an event to debut the new design at the Ottawa International Airport in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-608395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-nanaimo","13":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news","15":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","16":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oceanside","19":"tag-parksville","20":"tag-qualicum","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}